This is an analysis of the poem What The Dog Perhaps Hears that begins with:

If an inaudible whistle
blown between our lips...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbcdcefgXXbXdXeegXh hagXhXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010010 10111 111101 110001 0101010 111001 010010010 110001 10111 0111010 1110101 010001001 0101001 110001 101011 0101101 11101 0101010 10010101 1111100010 111101 100111 0101110 01101 1111111 010101001 01100101 111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of What The Dog Perhaps Hears;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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